. Travers' golf book . different golf shots. I know a number of very good golfers who have never been able to learn how to play this back spin approach. I recall169 GOLF BOOK a match at Garden City in which I wasone down and one to play. The last holeis about 160 yards, and the tee shot mustbe played across a pond. The green isguarded by a large bunker back of thehole and there are traps to the right andleft. There happened to be a strong fol-lowing wind which made it difficult tohold the green. I pitched a cut shot withA Cut Shot the mashie and the ball ran only a few^^ . ^ feet after strikin
. Travers' golf book . different golf shots. I know a number of very good golfers who have never been able to learn how to play this back spin approach. I recall169 GOLF BOOK a match at Garden City in which I wasone down and one to play. The last holeis about 160 yards, and the tee shot mustbe played across a pond. The green isguarded by a large bunker back of thehole and there are traps to the right andleft. There happened to be a strong fol-lowing wind which made it difficult tohold the green. I pitched a cut shot withA Cut Shot the mashie and the ball ran only a few^^ . ^ feet after striking the green, but my op-ponent, although his ball struck just overthe pond some twenty feet short of thegreen proper, ran clear past the hole intothe bunker at the rear. He lost the holeand the match because he was unable toplay the shot with proper back spin. True, the match was all square at thispoint, but the same shot gave me the vic-tory on the nineteenth hole. In playing this hole I hooked my drive and my ball170. Ph<jto Copyright by Amirican Press Association PLATE XXXVIII—FINISH OF MASHIE NIBLICK SHOT OUT OF BUNKER This remarkable picture shows the ball in flight. The wrists are turned up after the ball is struck. THE MASHIE NIBLICK landed in some weeds twenty yards froman ice-house, near the green, so that thehouse was directly in line between me andthe hole. To reach the hole it was neces-sary to play the ball over the building. In this emergency I chose a mashie nib- Over thelick, struck almost straight down behindthe ball, turned the wrists upwardquickly as the club went under it, andit rose sharply, cleared the ice-house anddropped dead to the hole. Owing to theback spin imparted to the shot the ballrolled but a few feet after it struck thegreen. These incidents are related withbut one idea in mind, and that is to im-press upon the reader the remarkablevalue of the mashie niblick when it isplayed properly. Although the wrists are allowed great freedom, the shot
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